1.   Before last May, the Unpaid Check Fund apparently had no formal guidelines for approving disbursements, other than the requirement that two officials authorize payment.

2.   But on Thursday afternoon, immigration officials authorized his release, and the hearing, scheduled for Friday morning, was canceled.

3.   Coast Guard officials have authorized the new security steps to be in place for at least nine months.

4.   Instead, they punted the question on Monday to New York state National Guard officials, a puzzling move, since state officials cannot unilaterally authorize the flights.

5.   So middle-level state justice officials authorized the procedure, but they decreed that it had to be performed in a state-run institution.

6.   State environmental officials authorized Panhandle counties to issue permits for bulldozing sand, a process known as beach scraping.

7.   The only senior government officials authorized to speak about the Cole bombing have been Saleh and al-Iryani.

8.   Whitacre says that top company officials authorized off-the-books payments to him and other executives.

9.   At a December conference in Bonn, Germany, international officials authorized Westendorp to impose binding decisions for problems that local leaders cannot solve.

10.   At a conference in Bonn, Germany, in December, international officials authorized Westendorp to impose binding decisions for problems that local leaders cannot solve.